“Managing an Adverse Event and Resulting Litigation”

10/27/2016

7:00am – 8:00am

Smilow TRC – 8th Floor, Conference Room 146AB

Mary Ellen Nepps, Esq.

Senior Counsel, University of Pennsylvania Office of the General Counsel

James A. Young, Esq.

Co-Founder, Christie & Young PC, Attorneys at Law

Jim Schuster, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Target Audience

This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, physician assistants, graduate post graduate neuroscience students, advanced practice nursesin the medical specialties of surgery, neurology, neuro-oncology, neuroradiology, and neuroscience.

Series Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Provide teaching in medial related education
  • Make appropriate clinical decision based on best medical practices
  • Discuss the rapidly evolving field of the research and results in the neurosciences
  • Identify what research opportunities are available at Penn and how these opportunities can be applied (in the near or long term) to clinical practice
  • Discuss fundamental spine biomechanical principles
  • Apply biomechanical spine principles to clinical practice

Session Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Demonstrate how to manage adverse patient events in order to mitigate risk.
  • Illustrateguidance on practices which may reduce risk and/or increase likelihood of prevailing if litigation is pursued

Accreditation

Physicians: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Nurses: Penn Medicine Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval # 124-3-H-15

Designation of Credit

Physicians: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: Nurse participants will be awarded 1.0 contact hour.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE

For more information, please contact

Lindsay Reynolds

215-349-8325

Lindsay.reynolds@uph

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products

It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Nursing Education, Innovation and Professional Developmentfor individuals who are in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships that they have with any commercial interest that provide products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

The intent of this policy is to ensure that Penn CME/CNE certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and free of commercial bias. Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure information was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relevant to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balanced, scientifically rigorous and evidence-based presentations.

The staff in the Office of CME at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP, Director of CME,Zalman Agus, MD,Senior peer reviewerand Patricia A. Smith, DNP, RN-BC,Nursing professional development specialist of the HUP Department of Nursing Innovation and Development have disclosed that they have norelevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.

The following individuals have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:

Planning Committee Member Name

Gordon H. Baltuch, MD, PhD / M. Sean Grady, MD
Zarina Ali, MD / Maxwell Merkow, MD
Robert Bailey, MD / Eileen Maloney-Wilensky, CRNP

Presenter Name

Mary Ellen Nepps, Esq.

Jim Young, Esq.

Jim Schuster, MD, PhD

The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.

Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

Relevant financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received or expected

Disclosure of Unapproved Uses of Products

Presenter nameProductInvestigational and/or Off-label Use